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EA Sports on NHL 12: Making a note here - huge success

EA Sports has announced that their professional hockey sports game, NHL 12, is the most successful game in the series ever. The game sold 19% more than last year's game worldwide, selling over 451K units in its first week of release.

Electronic Arts supplied some relevant stats as well:

* Gamers logged more than 6.9 million online connected game sessions last week (Sept 13-19), which marks the most online games played in one week in franchise history and 17 percent more than last year’s opening week.

* Each day last week, an average of 86 total hours of online gameplay of NHL 12 were played by gamers – the equivalent of more than 70 full NHL seasons of action every single day.

NHL 12 was launched on September 13 in North America and Europe on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.